Special Projects

What’s a special project and why do you keep pushing them off?

Special Projects are tasks that have been pushed to the side for any one of a number of reasons, including but not limited to:

No one in-house who has the time capacity to take it on;
No one actually knows how to get started to solve the problem;
The project lacks immediacy when buried beneath the daily grind, but it keeps popping up as a problem for the team

When left forgotten, these problems can grow and often result in staff frustration, high turnover rates and loss of clients – which ultimately undermine the growth and success of your organization.

A Special Project can be anything you and your team needs. By applying the same project management principles and systems, each project is managed in a methodical manner from initiation to close out.

KOJA provides part-time project management for special projects that often get left behind due to limited capacity, skillset, and focus on your internal team.

We are your Special Projects champion

Often a Special Project is started by someone internally and subsequently dropped because of the demands of their day-to-day job.

That same Special Project may be delegated to another employee who will start from scratch and, again, drop the project due to other tasks or perhaps lack of skill set or confidence to know how to approach the project.

KOJA steps in to champion these special projects from start to completion.

Hiring a new employee to take care of the project is unrealistic & expensive

At this point the team has already spent considerable human and financial capital on a project that has gone nowhere.

Engaging a part time professional who will see the project through to a successful outcome is a logical and affordable solution.

Examples of past Special Projects include:

RFP development: Proponent section, implementation and close out of project
Discovery analysis: determining feasibility or viability for the larger project)
Leadership support: C-Suite and Board confidential counsel
Office move: Managing the logistics of an office move
Software research: Software selection and implementation
Company accreditation / re-accreditation
Employee and procedure manual development

We work with any teams who are looking to create efficiency or solve a problem in their company, regardless of industry.

“KOJA has always completed projects on time and on budget. Leave-behind materials have been through and appropriate for the team. We now plan our projects and submit grant applications with KOJA top of mind to lead our projects.”

“We initially engaged KOJA Consulting to undertake a short compliance review project. The process was efficient and thorough and we have continued to hire KOJA every year since to lead a wide variety of strategic projects with and for our team, including several critical RFP development to project close-out projects.”

“KOJA has undertaken a wide variety of projects for our team, and always completed them on time and on budget. KOJA is quick to understand the depth and breadth of stakeholders and identify risks at all points in time. Communication and reporting has always been timely and appropriate.”

“Our team had capacity and skill-set issues to lead strategic projects internally. KOJA filled this gap for us and brought even more to the table than we expected. It has been hugely advantageous to have input and insight from someone who has a fresh perspective and can offer different solutions to how we’ve always done things.”

“KOJA offers practical, accessible, and thoughtful solutions at every stage of every initiative. KOJA’s understanding of the end-user experience has been critical to the success of each project.”

“We have engaged KOJA Consulting for a number of short and long term projects. KOJA Consulting supported us through a large accreditation project with a short turn-around and a hard deadline. They very quickly got up to speed with the complex requirements, developed a team schedule and kept us on track. The end result was that we were awarded the maximum reaccreditation term with no deficiencies.”

“Our success in the project was directly attributable to KOJA Consulting’s coordination. Koja Consulting also provides ongoing support for a client committee/advisory group, driving the groups agenda forward with meeting and project coordination, document management, scheduling, agendas/minutes and action items. Our experience has proven that KOJA has very strong communication and follow through skills, in addition to all the other attributes of a trustworthy project manager and administrator.”